Martin Soto Climent
08 Oct - 14 Nov 2009
MARTIN SOTO CLIMENT
'Laberintome'
Opening: wednesday 7 october 2009, 7.00 pm
Period: 08.10.09 - 14.11.09
For his second solo exhibition entitled 'Laberintome' at T293, Martin Soto Climent presents a new series of works realized by adopting a performative attitude to various objectual components. The action, hardly ever visible to the public, is a substantial part of his research in the sense of past action, a sort of hidden ritual which constantly acts through time and behind the objects.
In 'Laberintome' the artist takes a path in which his present experience overlaps a series of events that occurred in Mexico in the late 60s. The time spent in Naples by the artist (September and October) coincides, after more than forty years, with the period that preceded the inauguration of the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968, when hundreds of protesting students were massacred in the Square of the Three Cultures. The recent Soto Climent's return to Naples no longer has as immediate consequence a production that plunges into an evocative, mysterious space, but is arranged in many layers interweaving the great experience of the place with personal memories. Each work inverts the rules of imagination and tries to inform as much as possible about the relationship between the various elements and to unveil the mechanisms of the meaning that are hidden in the media communication. The complexity of references doesn’t make the exhibited works be ”indifferent residuals” of an event, but the product of a vital experience as well as a past performance that generates narratives steeped in social and political allegories.
Martin Soto Climent was born in Mexico City in 1977. His art explores the opacity of everyday object in relation to its emotional and performative sphere. He creates formal compositions that connect different areas of life. The major group exhibitions include: Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2009), X Initiative, New York (2009), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2007). He also exhibited in several private galleries: Karma International, Zurich (2009), Michael Benevento, Los Angeles (2009), T293, Naples (2008), and 1602 Broadway, New York (2006).
On this occasion, the T293 is pleased to inaugurate a second exhibition space to exhibit large installations. The exhibition 'Laberintome' will take place on two levels: the first floor of the gallery premises in Via Tribunali 293 and the new exhibition space located adjacent to the gallery entrance.
'Laberintome'
Opening: wednesday 7 october 2009, 7.00 pm
Period: 08.10.09 - 14.11.09
For his second solo exhibition entitled 'Laberintome' at T293, Martin Soto Climent presents a new series of works realized by adopting a performative attitude to various objectual components. The action, hardly ever visible to the public, is a substantial part of his research in the sense of past action, a sort of hidden ritual which constantly acts through time and behind the objects.
In 'Laberintome' the artist takes a path in which his present experience overlaps a series of events that occurred in Mexico in the late 60s. The time spent in Naples by the artist (September and October) coincides, after more than forty years, with the period that preceded the inauguration of the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968, when hundreds of protesting students were massacred in the Square of the Three Cultures. The recent Soto Climent's return to Naples no longer has as immediate consequence a production that plunges into an evocative, mysterious space, but is arranged in many layers interweaving the great experience of the place with personal memories. Each work inverts the rules of imagination and tries to inform as much as possible about the relationship between the various elements and to unveil the mechanisms of the meaning that are hidden in the media communication. The complexity of references doesn’t make the exhibited works be ”indifferent residuals” of an event, but the product of a vital experience as well as a past performance that generates narratives steeped in social and political allegories.
Martin Soto Climent was born in Mexico City in 1977. His art explores the opacity of everyday object in relation to its emotional and performative sphere. He creates formal compositions that connect different areas of life. The major group exhibitions include: Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen (2009), X Initiative, New York (2009), Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2007). He also exhibited in several private galleries: Karma International, Zurich (2009), Michael Benevento, Los Angeles (2009), T293, Naples (2008), and 1602 Broadway, New York (2006).
On this occasion, the T293 is pleased to inaugurate a second exhibition space to exhibit large installations. The exhibition 'Laberintome' will take place on two levels: the first floor of the gallery premises in Via Tribunali 293 and the new exhibition space located adjacent to the gallery entrance.